The Google Chrome team is happy to announce the arrival of Chrome 16.0.912.63 to the Stable Channel for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. Chrome 16 contains some really great improvements including enhancements to Sync and the ability to create multiple profiles on a single instance of Chrome. You can read about it more on the Google Chome blog.

Security fixes and rewards:Please seethe Chromium security page for more detail. Note that the referenced bugs may be kept private until a majority of our users are up to date with the fix

[81753] Medium CVE-2011-3903: Out-of-bounds read in regex matching. Credit to David Holloway of the Chromium development community.

[107258] High CVE-2011-3904: Use-after-free in bidi handling. Credit to Google Chrome Security Team (Inferno) and miaubiz.

The bugs [95465], [100863], [101494], [102359], [103921] and [105162] were detected usingAddressSanitizer. In addition, we would like to thank miaubiz, Eric Bidelman, and Sławomir Błażek for working with us in the development cycle and preventing bugs from ever reaching the stable channel. Various rewards were issued.

Thanks for using Chrome! If you find a new issue, please let us know byfiling a bug.

The Omnibox instant functionality no longer automatically loads URL's. For example if I type in usatoday and usatoday.com appears in the drop down list, and I arrow down to usatoday.com, the site won't load until I hit my enter key. I guess this was done on purpose for security reasons or something.

@Antonio -- If you read down the blog a few posts you will see that profile specific shortcuts have only been integrated into Chrome 17 Dev so far. you may not have to wait until 17 goes stable though, seems like something they could merge in once they are comfortable with the code.

Red, thanks for the info. Then I'll for version 17! ^^ This multiple profile of the same instance is just what I'm looking for and solve many of my problems! Earlier, I need to use Chrome, Firefox and IE9 to maintain 3 different accounts at the same time, LOL....

Why did they get dropped end not even mentioned in the logs??? Is this a bug or feature? Either way I would not let it update if knew that the side-tabs will be gone. Ind they have not been showing in about:flags page as well...

If side tabs are to no longer be a feature of Chrome, I would appreciate it if you would provide instructions on how to revert back to a previous version that did have them included. Additional instruction on how to turn off the automatic updates would also be appreciated, as I don't want to move to a version that does not have the features I use the most.

Great update. I love the syncing feature. I can bring all my stuff from my browser to another PC or laptop just by signing in great job chrome. One thing I notice instant web pages are gone and only instant for search now. No big deal. Just wondering why its taken out?

For those wanting to revert back to a version with side tabs: good luck. You can probably search some instructions, but i wouldn't hold your breath waiting for google to guide you through it. The last thing they want is for old versions of chrome be floating around like IE6.

Even if you managed to revert, you would stop receiving security updates. So long as you are ok with zero day vulnerabilities going un-patched, then go for it.

This version has broken the ability to access ssl pages for me. It appears the "BEAST" defense code has been re-introduced. This code broke chrome 15 for me as well, but it was patched the day after because people apparently had problems with wsj.com and other sites.

My company uses an SSL proxy and this code is not compatible with it. I will not be able to use Chrome until it is fixed.

Just got the update and they added Bluetooth. Just tried it but doesnt work. :/ Had a feeling it wouldnt work the first I seen it and it looks like it wont stay enabled after closing the tab. :/ Damn, oh well, next update maybe. ^_^